Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

It was his perpetual endeavour therewithal to Preach very Scripturally, and like an Hildersham, to back every thing he spoke, with some agreeable Sentence of the Sacred Scriptures Confirming of it. His Judgment was, That the Word of GOD is the Food of Souls; and the more there is of That pertinently Produced, the Better Fed are the Flocks under our Feeding. He judged also, That in the Word of GOD, there is that Voice of the Lord, that is Powerful and full of Majesty. Nor did he think, that any Language could equal it, for the Beauty of it. I am sure, I ought never to Forget a Passage he had in the Sermon he Preached at my Ordination; [On Act. XIII. 2.] Since the SPIRIT of GOD is concerned so much in the Separation of Persons to the Work of the Ministry, how much does it concern them, to be very Spiritual in their Ministry! Let it be their Care to Live Spiritually, and be Spiritually minded Men, and not Grieve the Holy Spirit of GOD by any Irregularities. But let them also ⟨p. 216⟩so Preach Spiritually; and therefore Preach Scripturally, The Word of GOD is the Sword of the Spirit; and they must Have and Quote much of That in their Sermons, if they would have the SPIRIT of GOD breathing in them. It may be added, That he had a notable way now and then, to bring in a Pertinent Passage of Church History, which mightily Awakened the Attention of the Auditory, and made his Words the more Pungent Goads unto them.

It was his perpetual endeavour therewithal to Preach very Scripturally, and like an Hildersham, to back every thing he spoke, with some agreable Sentence of the Sacred Scriptures Confirming of it. His Judgment was, That the Word of GOD is the Food of Souls; and the more there is of That pertinently Produced, the Better Fed are the Flocks under our Feeding. He judged also, That in the Word of GOD, there is that Voice of the Lord, that is Powerful and full of Majesty. Nor did he think, that any Language could aequal it, for the Beauty of it. I am sure, I ought never to Forget a Passage he had in the Sermon he Preached at my Ordination; [On Act. XIII. 2.] Since the SPIRIT of GOD is concerned so much in the Separation of Persons to the Work of the Ministry, how much does it concern them, to be very Spiritual in their Ministry! Let it be their Care to Live Spiritually, and be Spirituallyminded Men, and not Grieve the Holy Spirit of GOD by any Irregularities. But let them also